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TV Burp Comedian Harry Hill In Talks With Channel 4

ITV comedian Harry Hill is understood to be in talks to move to Channel 4 that could see him making a film with the broadcaster.

C4 is understood to be offering a golden handcuffs deal worth £2m, with a film and sketch series currently in discussion, according to reports.

Harry Hill’s TV Burp, an award-winning staple in ITV1's schedule, is expected to finish at the end of March. The comedian is understood to have turned down a £1m pay rise to stay at ITV, which would have taken his salary to £4m.

The comedian is thought to have become tired of TV Burp, produced by Avalon Television, because of the long hours of research and the amount of TV he needed to watch to make the programme.

“Quite a lot of them are engaged by that, they get to a point in their career and they want to do different sorts of things. I’m sure there will always be some people who are interested in exploring a relationship with 4.”

'The Harry Hill Show', a surreal comedy programme, ran for three series on C4 when it started in 1997 before he moved to ITV.

Two years after the all-female reboot of the beloved 1980s franchise arrived, original star Dan Aykroyd is now promising that a true Ghostbusters 3, starring the three surviving OG ‘busters, is on its way. Many thought the death of Harold Ramis, who played Egon Spengler, in 2014 had put paid to a proper reunion, but Aykroyd’s comments suggest that we can look forward to him teaming up with Bill Murray and Ernie Hudson in the near future.

While speaking on The Big Interview With Dan Rather, the man fans know as Dr. Ray Stantz, the heart of the Ghostbusters agreed with Rather’s wording that he was talking about making a “full-blown third Ghostbusters,” with an unknown writer already currently working on the script. Obviously, Aykroyd wouldn’t let on to anything about story details, but he did tease that it’ll try and recapture what worked so well about the original films while giving it a “21st century” twist.

“I think we got a story that’s gonna work. It’s being written by a really goo…

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If so, there's good news from the world of Gozer — there’s a new Ghostbusters movie in the works!

Entertainment Weekly has learned exclusively that Jason Reitman will direct and co-write an upcoming film set in the world that was saved decades previously by the proton pack-wearing working stiffs in the original 1984 movie, which was directed by his father, Ivan Reitman.

“I’ve always thought of myself as the first Ghostbusters fan, when I was a 6-year-old visiting the set. I wanted to make a movie for all the other fans,” Reitman says. “This is the next chapter in the original franchise. It is not a reboot. What happened in the ‘80s happened in the ‘80s, and this is set in the present day.”